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A man charged with identity fraud was represented by Potts Lawyers in a bail hearing.
A man charged with identity fraud was represented by Potts Lawyers in a bail hearing.
Author: Adam Moschella
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Gold Coast residents living in fear
VIOLENCE: The crime scene at the third in a spate of recent Gold Coast shootings which the Queensland deputy premier has said is linked to organised crime. Picture: Mike Batterham Source: Gold Coast Bulletin
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Shooting accused argues self-defence
A GILSTON father-of-three charged with shooting dead a man outside his house has been granted bail after arguing he acted in self-defence during a violent home invasion.
Lawyer Bill Potts said Kane Ronald Cook was the true victim and had wrestled a 9mm Luger from a balaclava-clad robber before shooting him in the leg.
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Gold Coast’s best cop fined for drink-driving
A police officer named the Gold Coast’s best has been fined for drink-driving.
But the officer dodged a conviction that could have resulted in him being kicked out of the force.
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Gold Coast’s Top cop fined for drink-driving
A police officer named the Gold Coast's best has been fined for the offence of drink-driving. But the officer dodged a conviction that could have resulted in him being kicked out of the force. Constable Michael Froggatt, who won Rotary's Gold Coast police man of the year award in 2010, pleaded guilty to driving with a blood alcohol reading of 0.085 on Sunday. Magistrate Terry Duroux decided not to record a conviction, something that would have ended Froggatt's policing career. Mr Duroux noted Froggatt still faces police disciplinary proceedings, which could result in sanctions, loss of rank and a pay cut. Froggatt's lawyer Bill Potts argued against...
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Teen thief hospitalised, victim investigated for assault
A teenager winds up in intensive care after allegedly being chased and bashed after trying to break into the garage of a Nerang home.
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Mark Williams represents a client charged with drug-driving whose charge is ultimately dismissed
OVERDOSE: Police officer Lynette Jones escaped a drug-driving charge after her lawyers successfully argued she didn’t know what she was doing because she had taken the controversial sleeping drug Stilnox. Picture: Kate Czerny Source: Gold Coast Bulletin
A SUSPENDED Gold Coast policewoman has beaten a drug-driving charge after her lawyers successfully argued she was “sleep-driving” and did not even know she was at the wheel.
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Mandatory sentencing “over-reaction”
THE Queensland Police Union has made its position clear – if you assault a cop you should go straight to jail, but a leading Gold Coast defence lawyer believes calls for mandatory sentencing are a “massive over-reaction.”
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No jail time over senseless death
ONE of the witnesses said it himself — put testosterone, alcohol and the early hours of the morning together and nothing good was ever going to come of it.
A jury yesterday acquitted Elanora graphic designer Mark Leslie Fitzgerald of manslaughter, but it came after years of “hell” for all involved with a group of young, drunk men who got into a fight outside the Big Chief burger shop at Coolangatta on Father’s Day, 2009.
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Finks bikie Nicholas John Forbes ‘part of terror team’ June Adelaide Now – 16 June 2011
A MEMBER of a bikie “terror team” will be extradited to Adelaide over a nightclub brawl with a rival gang.
Finks member Nicholas John Forbes, 41, was arrested yesterday on the Gold Coast over his alleged involvement in the fight at a Hindley Street nightclub on May 29.